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Hannah Jane is on page 77 of 512 of What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell
Emmy (Emily) Maxwell writing to Eudora about the fruitcake Eudora sent: "...And it was good to have something from your hands. I only like the parts of Christmas that people make."
Oct 10, 2025 08:03AM Add a comment
What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell

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Hannah Jane is on page 163 of 325 of The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"You can't control grief by subtracting joy from your life. You can't control grief, period."
Aug 15, 2025 06:15AM 1 comment
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

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Hannah Jane is on page 27 of 357 of Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
The you that exists in the present - right now - wants to pursue your deeper goals, and wants to be a better person. But you know you're fallible and likely to crack in the face of temptation. So you bind the future version of you. You narrow your choices. You tie yourself to the mast.
Aug 15, 2025 06:14AM Add a comment
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

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Hannah Jane is on page 198 of 493 of American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Every time I think I'm going to abandon this book it gives me something interesting:

"Writing to Rockwell on December 31, Disney thanked him for 'the swell portraits of my kids...You captured a mood in my older daughter that I think is wonderful because at times she is such a serious thing and has often given me that same look that brings me off my high horse.'"
Jun 22, 2025 08:26AM Add a comment
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell

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Hannah Jane is on page 66 of 160 of Wild Geese
“The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.”
Jan 03, 2025 05:56AM Add a comment
Wild Geese

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Hannah Jane is on page 71 of 252 of Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
“Reid [her husband] could always tell when I had a new skull that was giving me trouble. We might be sitting on the couch talking when he noticed my gaze veering off and say, ‘You’re looking at my skull again, aren’t you?’”
Dec 06, 2024 06:22AM Add a comment
Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

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Hannah Jane is on page 52 of 216 of Yield: The Journal of an Artist
“I long ago decided that if the things I make ever cease to emerge in my mind‘s eye, I would stop making them. It never occurred to me that they might simply continue to rise up as long as I live, bid into a body no longer able to rise to meet them.”
Oct 06, 2024 07:14AM Add a comment
Yield: The Journal of an Artist

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Hannah Jane is on page 66 of 328 of The Twenty: One Woman's Trek Across Corsica on the GR20 Trail
“What we enjoy as children wields an indelible hold, but perhaps what we missed has an equally determined grip.”
Oct 01, 2024 01:26PM Add a comment
The Twenty: One Woman's Trek Across Corsica on the GR20 Trail

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Hannah Jane is on page 25 of 272 of I never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People
“I said, ‘write a poem about the quietest things or the quietest times you can think of; if you like, put a different quiet thing in every line.’”
Sep 23, 2024 12:49PM Add a comment
I never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People

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Hannah Jane is on page 25 of 216 of Yield: The Journal of an Artist
“ Each individual lives the story of his or her own existence - we “translate” our lives as we live them. In my case translated into objects: art and books.”
Sep 23, 2024 12:47PM Add a comment
Yield: The Journal of an Artist

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Hannah Jane is starting Half Broke Horses
Time to visit this again ❤️
Sep 09, 2024 06:12PM Add a comment
Half Broke Horses

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Hannah Jane is on page 64 of 310 of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering…”
May 02, 2024 03:24PM Add a comment
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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Hannah Jane is 15% done with Good Night, Irene
Not sure how I'm feeling about this, but one of the characters, Dorothy just told someone to "unass" their seat. 😂
Jan 16, 2024 07:28AM Add a comment
Good Night, Irene

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Hannah Jane is on page 189 of 656 of Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
Poet David Wright writing about how his deafness is rarely without sound:

Such nonsounds include the flight and movement of birds, even fish, swimming in clear water…I take it that the flight of most birds, at least, at a distance, must be silent…Yet it appears audible, each species creating a different ‘eye-music’ of the nonchalant melody…”
Jan 15, 2024 06:44AM Add a comment
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

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Hannah Jane is on page 60 of 300 of An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“Pattern pleases us, rewards a mind seduced, and yet exhausted by complexity.”
Jan 15, 2024 06:36AM Add a comment
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

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Hannah Jane is on page 54 of 300 of An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“Look patiently, affectionately, at anything, gather, six or eight perceptions, and it will never look the same again.”
Jan 14, 2024 06:17AM Add a comment
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

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Hannah Jane is on page 96 of 656 of Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
“Awareness is immanent, and infinitely available, but it is camouflaged like a shy animal.”
Dec 25, 2023 09:16AM Add a comment
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

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Hannah Jane is on page 92 of 256 of Clarity & Connection
Know your sources of rejuvenation:

the amount of solitude you need to feel fresh again

the activities that strengthen your creativity

the people who light up your spirit
Oct 30, 2023 05:54PM Add a comment
Clarity & Connection

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Hannah Jane is on page 56 of 256 of The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures
In reference to naked mole-rats: “It appears a combination of bullying and crap meals is a highly effective way of ruling an underground organization.“
Oct 30, 2023 05:49PM Add a comment
The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures

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Hannah Jane is 27% done with Pinocchio
This is horrifying.
Oct 23, 2023 02:16PM Add a comment
Pinocchio

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Hannah Jane is on page 24 of 96 of No Land in Sight: Poems
Could that be me?

An alarm clock
With no hands
Ticking loudly
On the town dump.
Sep 24, 2023 05:56AM Add a comment
No Land in Sight: Poems

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Hannah Jane is on page 27 of 158 of The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
“…the Papago liken saguaros…to Homo sapiens because no matter how much they tend to dominate a landscape, they are still vulnerable.”
Sep 22, 2023 05:51PM Add a comment
The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country

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Hannah Jane is on page 30 of 227 of A Flat Place: A Memoir
“Perhaps we love the things that reflect our own delusions about ourselves back to us. I love stones because they are old and hard and sure, which is how I feel, even though I am not.”
Sep 12, 2023 04:05PM Add a comment
A Flat Place: A Memoir

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Hannah Jane is on page 129 of 278 of The Wishing Game
“‘Poetry doesn’t solve my problems,’ Hugo said…
’Why would anyone have problems poetry couldn’t solve?’ Jack demanded.”
Sep 02, 2023 04:55PM Add a comment
The Wishing Game

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Hannah Jane is on page 29 of 384 of Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
“I forgive you…For being unable/to forgive yourself first, so you/could then forgive others and/at last find a way to become/the love that you want in this world.”
Jul 17, 2023 06:34PM Add a comment
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

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Hannah Jane is starting How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Reading this at the same time I’m reading The Guncle is priceless.
Jun 27, 2023 12:45PM Add a comment
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

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Hannah Jane is on page 62 of 224 of How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
In reference to her pebble plant:

“My daily amazement had to do not only with its ingenious masquerade but also with the alternative it offered to the festival of exposure that seems so central to the way we live today. This little plant offered an opposite approach. It was expert at receding, with disappearance woven into its cellular structure.”
Jun 19, 2023 06:12PM Add a comment
How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

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Hannah Jane is on page 37 of 288 of How to Listen: Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication
“Listening is the willingness to have your mind changed.”

I have been asking myself if I have this willingness…and I’m sometimes surprised by the absolute train wreck of my thoughts when I sometimes answer no.
Jun 14, 2023 06:36AM Add a comment
How to Listen: Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication

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Hannah Jane is on page 46 of 304 of Hunters of the Lost City
“Ferox were not animals in the usual sense. They were weapons, made up of messy collections of bone, metal, wood, skin, vines, stone, and all manner of materials, held together and animated by magic.

I’m in love with these monsters!
Mar 18, 2023 04:36PM Add a comment
Hunters of the Lost City

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Hannah Jane is on page 48 of 320 of How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
“How a parent-figure treated you as a child is not a reflection of who you are. Or even who they are. You do not need to be a reflection of their unprocessed trauma.”
Feb 25, 2023 05:50AM Add a comment
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

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